Karen became a Consultant in the Family Department following the acquisition of her business, Fleming & Co, by Coole Bevis in April 2023.

Karen trained at Church Adams Tatham & Co in the 1980s and has been a specialist in Family Law since then, working at various times in Private Practice, and at others in her own firms.

Since completing her training in London, Karen has held senior positions in a number of Sussex based law firms including Woolley Bevis Diplock, one of the legacy firms that merged with Coole & Haddock in 2016 to form Coole Bevis LLP.

Karen liaises with the Family Department in all areas of Family Law.

Accreditations and achievements 

• Built up a successful Family Law practice with a strong reputation in the Sussex region attracting clients by recommendation.
• Held positions in various Chamber of Commerce committees.
• Ran a successful support group for clients struggling with divorce.
• Involved in many notable cases, some setting precedents which were then reported in national newspapers. One case concerned two blue eyed parents with brown eyed children, leading the ‘father’ to take swabs, as the children slept, for DNA, to then discover that they were not his biological children.